Researcher and urban planner Rod Arroyo; and Kimberly Cooley, a descendant of a Black Bottom business owner and founder of a Taste of Hastings Street, joined Jordan. MDOT, the museum and Detroit ...

Located in Detroit ... the legacies of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley. Our project is making the argument that while Black Bottom and Paradise Valley have been destroyed as places, this rich Black ...

Detroit Repertory Theatre continues its exploration of legendary playwright August Wilson’s Century Cycle with “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a work especially well known to many since 2020 ...